It’s one thing making waves like this, but when a surfer stacks it on a wave of such consequence a car crash situation takes over. You know you shouldn’t look, but you just can’t help it. It’s a guilty pleasure to laugh at surfers as they are piled through the ultimate in rinse cycles. No matter how big the wave is you simply cannot help but release a slight chuckle.

Fortunately a solid beating for the top big wave surfers is like you or I getting pummelled in a three foot shore break, so, for them it’s no big deal right? Well maybe not at this level, click on and watch in glorious horror as five of the best big wave hell men on the planet eat shit, this is the Billabong XXL Wipeouts of the year.